Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville Still Life with Peaches, Pears and Grapes Oil on canvas circa 1890

Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville Still Life with Peaches Pears and Grapes Oil on canvas circa 1890-1900
 
A decorative oil on canvas in a carved wooden frame formerly gilded, representing a Still Life with peaches, pears and grapes.
Our painting by Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville is signed lower right, certainly circa 1890-1900.
 
Dimension without frame: Height 54 cm - Length 66 cm. 
Dimension with frame: Height 82 cm - Length 71 cm. 
In good condition. 
Biography: 
Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852-1941) is a French painter.
 
Having received fairly basic training from his father, he became famous in his 20s and 30s as an animal artist of the Paris School, focusing on domestic cats and then later still lifes, such as fruit and flowers.

He exhibited his work at the Société des Artistes Français from 1879 and was elected a member in 1907. Throughout his life De-Neuville worked hard to improve his skills and his later paintings are more complex than his earlier works.
Dogs and cats became popular as subjects of a sentimentalist and realist genre at which De-Neuville excelled. Although his style is generally realistic, some of the cat paintings have just a touch of impressionism in tone. Certainly, cats are not depicted as a natural subject in a strict realist manner. Many of his still lifes have a very French bucolic charm.
Alfred Brunel de Neuville died in 1941, he is buried in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris.
 
Museums:
 
His works can be seen in museums in Béziers, Brest, Château-Thierry and Louviers.

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